Give it a rest Guys!
And Redbaron, you know we dont allow political discussion on here so why try your luck? please stop!
There is no political discussion other than Lewy trying to start something.
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Give it a rest Guys!
And Redbaron, you know we dont allow political discussion on here so why try your luck? please stop!
Paul/ said:You derailed it all by yourself with your provocative and crass political comments.
redbaron said:As per the title - what go you into / made you want to follow your chosen career path?
Was there a trigger event? Did you just "fall" in to it or was there a magic "ta-da" moment?
I also worked on an IBM 360/370 and before that a 1401 .The memory was the size of a fridge and was 8k , we had an upgrade to 12k which arrived on the back of a lorry and needed 4 of us to get it into the computer room!Personally I didn't find redbaron's post offensive either... but it does demonstrate why the rule about not allowing politics on the forum makes a lot of sense.
My long career in IT started when a friend working for an Apple dealer - an almost unknown novelty then - offered me a job with the company he worked for. I had an interest in computers and even took some university courses - but these were room-sized IBM 360/370 with card readers and Teletype terminals - the pinnacle of the 'small' computers was a PDP10. There were brands then that have since disappeared - Philco, Mostek, to name a few. Apple's 'Micro' computers Apple, Apple II, and later the Apple IIc and Apple III were all very exciting machines at the time.
EDIT: I later became a Novell CNE - yet another forgotten brand - and spent large part of my working career designing computer network systems for a variety of clients - including a well-known international tier-1 OE automotive manufacturer who supplies MB...
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